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We hear very little of the on-going Sortition exercise which is on-going in Iceland. Here’s a piece from today’s Irish Times:

As part of a bold and ambitious initiative in active democracy, the first National Assembly was held in Reykjavik last month. Some 1,200 citizens randomly selected from the national register and 300 invited guests, including cabinet ministers and MPs, trade unions, representatives from the media and others, were brought together in a modern-style social partnership. The task of the National Assembly, comprising 0.5 per cent of the population, was to plan a future vision for the country. People were asked what sort of society Iceland should now build in the aftermath of bankruptcy. Read the rest of this entry »

> Hi Ben, (Saunders) Oxford
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> Great to hear from someone else toiling in the field – although I’m more about using L to decide ‘who gets the prize’ (rather than L voting for who should get the job of distributing the prizes. Read the rest of this entry »

As well as a new Preface for this second edition (the first edition was in 1992), there is an additional Chapter ‘The Lottery Revisited’. This covers many of the proposals for lottery use in the UK during the intervening years.

From: Carson [mailto:l.carson@econ.usyd.edu.au]
“I believe it was either Madison or Jefferson who proposed a third house of congress…
to be appointed by Lottery to oversee the other two.” Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Lyn Carson: who received an email from Robin Clarke “The Real Democracy Party was registered with the Electoral Commission some months back, with a thumbs-up logo” Read the rest of this entry »